I respect that opinion, but don't understand it at all.   Maybe I've just got too much time on my hands, but I ALWAYS want to know what people say in reply to my posts... you know, to see if they flame me or praise my greatness!

Don't most of you feel the same way when you look at your forum experiences... wouldn't you USUALLY want to see replies to a topic you replied to?

I totally agree. Except that I *don't* have too much time on my hands. I have NO time on my hands. Which is why every time I sign up for a new board, the first thing I do is go to my profile and select "Automatically subscribe me to all threads I post in." 

3/4 of the time, I'm  registering for a board not because I want to read everything that happens there or become part of a community, but because  I have some specific question or questions (e.g. in support forums like this one). There's no way I have time   to go look at a dozen or so  boards every day to see if my question has been answered. And if the default "subscribe" option is not checked, I may forget to check it manually and forget to ever come back. Heck, sometimes I receive an email from a thread I participated in two years ago, containing new and useful information. This is an indispensible feature.

Finally, it's a feature users have come to expect,  because it's so commonplace on other boards. Thus, its absensce from punBB is seen as a negative.

I totally sympathize on the bloat and resource thing (and yes, the question of whether this feature makes sense depends a lot on the popularity of any given board).   But to me, this one is important enough to be worth making the "bloat" compromise for.

Just my .02

I think it would be great to have the option on the admin side and/or the user side to check a box that says:

"Automatically subscribe me to all threads to which I've posted."

I've said it before, but I think any website owner is looking for "sticky" customers and this is a big way to do it.   Yeah, it will increase server load, but with the extra money you (should) be making it would easily cover additional server resources. 

middleground: The problem with BCC is that lots of spam filters tag it as spam if there are lots of addresses in the BCC field.

No. It's one e-mail per subscriber. You can't mass e-mail out those notifications for two reasons:

1. Using a large list of hidden recipients upsets spam filters.
2. You can't just CC it, because then other peoples e-mail addresses will be revealed.

I remember one of the boards, can't remember which one, using BCC to not reveal email addresses.

Curious- is there an "email queue"? Some hosts limit number of emails sent in a given shot. Preferring to do, for example 2x1000 rather than 1x2000.

Smartys wrote:

And subscriptions are already able to be set by the admins

Huh, stupid question: Where?

I mean if subscriptions are enabled or not

but it works on 1.2.5 http://punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=288

And no one else pointed this out to me why?

I respect that opinion, but don't understand it at all.   Maybe I've just got too much time on my hands, but I ALWAYS want to know what people say in reply to my posts... you know, to see if they flame me or praise my greatness!

Don't most of you feel the same way when you look at your forum experiences... wouldn't you USUALLY want to see replies to a topic you replied to?

Well, I get way too much email/spam. I personally don't subscrbe to any forum threads. I just check my forums once a day and check the "my posts" link, as it is updated with new posts from other people. Very handy.

But there are some people on my forum, that I want to read the forum, and they don't do it, unless they're mailed.

And subscriptions are already able to be set by the admins

Huh, stupid question: Where?

I don't have the energy to read through the whole topic. I'll just cave in and add something to 1.3. OK?

HAHAHA   

Note To Self:  Squeaky wheel gets grease!